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Over 80 species of birds common to Ontario are featured in this easy-to-use introductory field guide. Colour illustrations and extensive natural history are...

The perfect companion volume for Hale-Bopp watchers, this guide explores the fabulous mysteries above, from planets in our solar system to the constellatio...

An Extensive Use Of Color Photographs Makes This A Fine Guide For Identifying Insects. Spiders, Bugs, Moths, Butterflies, Beetles, Bees, Flies, Dragonflies,...

From Hudson Bay to Pelee Island, from Rainy River to the Quebec border, Ontario offers a rich variety of experiences for nature-lovers of all ages and inte...

Learn about 318 species of Ontario birds in fascinating detail. Descriptions of each bird, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understa...

Wouldn’t it be great to understand all our Christmas traditions? Here, Jonathan Green offers the fascinating history behind our most beloved holiday tradi...

Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of...

It all dates from those summers alone in the high desert, me lying on my belly and watching wild horses with my binoculars for hours at a time. Straining to...

These easy-to-use guides are divided into three parts: introductory essays; color plates and species accounts; and appendices - all in a convenient size!Cat...

Wetlands--lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps, bogs and fens--are an integral part of the Ontario landscape. They slow and sustain local water flow, and they con...

This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and...

This book is an introduction to the fascinating and increasingly popular pastime of bird-watching. Informative and colorfully illustrated, this attractive g...

Peterson The best-selling field guides of all time Medicinal plants are increasingly well regarded as supplements and sometimes as alternatives for prescr...

"Mushroom Magic" showcases the many delicious ways to serve mushrooms with a broad range of colours, shapes and textures, mushrooms add interest and fabulou...

Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life! Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home! Fam...

A must-have for foragers, botanists, herbalists, gardeners, permaculturists, and anyone who wants to learn more about wild plants, this insightful guide p...

Usborne Spotters Guides are perfect companions for enthusiasts of the natural world. Each title includes detailed full-colour illustrations of 100-200 speci...

A comprehensive encyclopedia on birds with contributions by over 100 zoologists, covering all aspects of bird behavior, evolution and including reference c...

The trusted guidebook for animal lovers that describes the astonishing ways in which humans can speak with—and listen to—all creatures. In this compre...

Volume 1 of an encyclopedic work covers 4666 species, ferns on up. Full botanical information for each. 1913 edition, preferred by many to more recent rev...

Since its original publication in 1993, The Safari Companion has been the best field guide to observing and understanding the behavior of African mammals. ...

Want to know where in New Jersey you can go fossil hunting? How about cranberry harvesting? Perhaps you'd like to find the most accessible Garden State fis...

National Wildlife Federation’s new all-photographic field guide to North American insects, spiders, and related species, is the most up-to-date of its kin...

A complete guide to the many deciduous and coniferous trees and shrubs found in Ontario, Canada's most populous and diverse province. Includes Bibliography,...

Sparrows and Finches offers birders information on this rich variety of species right in their own backyard. It's hard to keep all those little brown birds...

Authoritative and beautiful, written by expert zoologists and illustrated with nearly two thousand original full-color paintings by the world's finest wild...

Covering the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, shrike flycatchers, philentomas, bat...

Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus o...

Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million en...

Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar M...

The most comprehensive and easy-to-use pocket guide to the reptiles and amphibians of the world, with beautiful color photographs and authoritative text fro...

now Revered As One Of North America's Top Birders, Kenn Kaufman Hit The Road At Age Sixteen And Spent A Year Crisscrossing The Country To See As Many Bird...

Ontario's diverse mammal population is beautifully portrayed in this comprehensive and easy-to-use field guide. Colour-coded header bars organize the mammal...

The Ontario Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Covering every inch of Ontario's incre...